***WITH VIDEO*** Alan Wood responds to Oakland County Circuit Judge Colleen O'Brien's during his sentencing for the murder of Nancy Dailey of Royal Oak. Friday, February 15, 2013. The Oakland Press/TIM THOMPSON

***WITH VIDEO*** Alan Wood escorted into Judge Colleen O'Brien's Oakland County Circuit Courtroom for his sentencing for the murder of Nancy Dailey of Royal Oak. Friday, February 15, 2013. The Oakland Press/TIM THOMPSON

PONTIAC -- Two parolees were sentenced Friday for the 2011 slaying of a Royal Oak senior citizen, a woman who had helped the pair.

And gasps could be heard throughout Oakland County Circuit Judge Colleen O'Brien's courtroom as convicted murderer Alan Wood winked at the audience and members of the media while being taken to out of the room and to a life-long prison term.

Showing no remorse for brutally killing Nancy Dailey, 80, Alan Wood -- a homeless man previously from Pontiac and a parolee with a deadly drug habit -- listened as he was sentenced to a mandatory life-without-parole term in prison for the first-degree premeditated murder.

He mumbled throughout O'Brien's reading of his sentence, shaking his head.

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Tonia Watson, 41, Wood's lover and accomplice, was also sentenced, getting 23 to 80 years in prison for her part in the murder. She had pleaded to second-degree murder and testified against Wood.

O'Brien said that while Watson showed remorse for her actions Friday, her actions after the initial murder did not show any. According to previous testimony, Wood and Watson had bought cocaine and heroin in Pontiac and Detroit following the slaying, and they had also planned on targeting another elderly woman to rob.

While Watson said that she was "so sorry" for the loss of Dailey, Wood showed arrogance during his separate sentencing.

Family and friends of Dailey were given the opportunity to speak to Wood before his sentencing.

"I don't know what rock you crawled out from," she added. "You're going to pay for the rest of your life for the brutal and senseless murder of my cousin."

Dailey's neice, Nan Drinkard -- who said she was named after her aunt -- told Wood her aunt "deserved to die with dignity, surrounded by those who loved her best. Instead, you chose to hunt her down like an animal in her very own house."

In a prepared statement from Wood's nephew, James Reynolds, read by Assistant Prosecutor Tricia Dare, Wood was described as a "convicted sex offender and arsonist who started (his) career at 17."

Dare read Reynolds' statements, which went on to say that it hurt the Savannah, Ga., man to hear Wood called "sir" in court.

"You are anything but a gentleman," the statement read.

The judge, before reading Wood's final sentence, said of all murder cases she's tried, this was the worst.

"You took advantage of an elderly woman who only showed you kindness," said O'Brien. For what, she asked. "For drugs ... to continue a life of crime."

When it was Wood's turn to speak to the court, he remarked: "Please get to your sentence and stop preaching."

He argued that his constitutional rights were violated during the murder investigation, made references to the knife that was kept in evidence lockers at the Royal Oak Police Department, and asked the judge to throw out the charges, because "the complaint and warrant were never signed, or time-dated or stamped ... I don't even have no evidence this court ... ever even filed ... this charge needs to be filed."

Wood and Watson, two parolees looking for money, knew Dailey as they had come to her home to ask for a job. The couple was paid $40 for raking Dailey's leaves, more than they had asked. On Nov. 20, 2011, they returned to her Trafford Road home in Royal Oak, where Wood slashed and stabbed her throat, leaving her to die.

In October 2012, lawsuits were filed in federal court against the Michigan Department of Corrections, accusing parole officers within the state's prison system of failing to do their jobs in failing to detain the pair.

The lawsuits claim that Wood and Watson met with parole officers shortly before Dailey's death.

While she said she wouldn't comment on pending litigation, Prosecutor Jessica Cooper said, in relation to the problems within the MDOC, "that's just the tip of the iceberg."

After the couple's sentencing, Drinkard added that she was surprised by Wood's arrogance.

"We are all supposed to be on our best behavior in the courtroom, and he was talking while the judge was talking," she said. "Obviously, he's not sorry. He'll have a long time to think about it, anyway."

Chief Assistant Prosecutor Paul Walton said that while Wood isn't the most arrogant defendant he's seen, his type of behavior is typical for someone going to prison for the rest of his life.

"His false bravado is making him a hero in his subculture of killers," said Walton.

The attitude was for the people he's going to be with, explained Cooper.

"He's trying to get his last dig in," she said. "Trying to take a shot at the judicial system."